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The Sibyl

ArteKino’s programming

ArteKino’s programming

Classics 2023

  • Charles

    Charles, Dead or Alive

    Alain Tanner

    Disillusioned with life, businessman Charles Dé takes on a fake identity, leaves his family and moves in with a young couple he has met by chance.

  • Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?

    Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?

    William Klein

    For an episode of the French TV programme « Who are you?”, Polly Maggoo becomes the pseudo-portrait of a super model.

  • Rocco and His Brothers

    Rocco and His Brothers

    Luchino Visconti

    After losing her husband, Rosaria moves from rural Sicily to the industrial city of Milan with her four sons.

  • The Lacemaker

    The Lacemaker

    Claude Goretta

    A shy hairdresser falls in love with a Parisian student, but her reserved personality impedes their relationship.

  • The Bridge

    The Bridge

    Bernhard Wicki

    Shortly before the end of World War II, a group of young Germans are faced with military conscription.

  • Diary for My Children

    Diary for My Children

    Mészàros Màrta

    The ghost of the Soviet Union haunts young Juli when she returns to her native Budapest.

  • Scrubbers

    Scrubbers

    Mai Zetterling

    Two young women manage to escape a sinister 1970s reform school for girls in England.

  • Diary for my father and mother

    Diary for My Father and Mother

    Mészàros Màrta

    The third film of the « Diaries » trilogy depicts the Hungarian revolution of 1956 against the Russian occupation.

  • Diary for My Lovers

    Diary for My Lovers

    Mészàros Màrta

    The second film in Marta Mészàros’ “Diaries” trilogy, which won a Silver Bear Award at the 1987 Berlin Film Festival.

  • The Cruel Embrace

    The Cruel Embrace

    Marion Hänsel

    Nicole, a young mother haunted by the memory of a rape, refuses to be seen as a victim.

  • The Wall

    The Wall

    Serge Roullet

    During the Spanish Civil War, three men are arrested and imprisoned. There may be a way out for one of them.

  • Change of Life

    Change of Life

    Paulo Rocha

    Adelino returns to Portugal after the Angolan War only to find that the woman he loves has married his brother.

  • Withnail and I

    Withnail and I

    Bruce Robinson

    Two penniless actors leave their shabby student flat in London’s Camden Town and travel to the countryside.

  • Daisies

    Daisies

    Vera Chytilovà

    Both psychedelic and poetic, “Daisies” is a rare gem of the Czechoslovakian ‘Nouvelle vague’ directed by Vera Chytilova.

  • Face to Face

    Face to Face

    Roviros Manthoulis

    An English teacher agrees to take a job as a tutor for a pampered young woman in a nouveau-riche household.

  • Stolen meeting

    Stolen meeting

    Leida Laius

    Free from prison in Russia, Valentina heads back to Estonia in the hopes of finding her son.

  • Life of a shock worker

    Life of a shock worker

    Bahrudin Bato Cengic

    A picturesque story of men who work hard, in the dangerous depths of coal mines. A classic in Yugoslav cinema.

  • Eskimo Woman Feel Cold

    Eskimo Woman Feel Cold

    Xantus Jànos

    A piano player falls in love with Mari, who happens to be married to a deaf-mute animal caretaker.

  • Bubble bath

    Bubble bath

    Kovàsznai György

    A man about to get married realises that he is actually in love with his fiancée’s friend.

  • Adoption

    Adoption

    Marta Meszaros

    Kata is a carpenter who wants to become a mother, but when she meets troubled teenager Anna, she starts considering adoption.

  • El Camino

    El Camino

    Ana Mariscal

    Daniel recalls the experience of having to leave his hometown for the city to study.

Selection 2023

The ArteKino catalogue includes a monthly film rendez-vous, the ArteKino Selection, featuring contemporary films.

  • Cendres

    Ashes and Blood

    Fanny Ardant

    The return of a mother to her native land revives ancestral clan wars.

  • Frontier of Dawn

    Frontier of Dawn

    Philippe Garrel

    A young photographer is haunted by the memory of a spellbinding love affair. A film by Philippe Garrel featuring his son, Louis Garrel.

  • Just Don't Think I'll Scream

    Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream

    Frank Beauvais

    Fragments of hundreds of films tell the story of filmmaker Frank Beauvais’ recovery from a breakup in a small Alsatian village.

  • Júlia ist

    Júlia ist

    Elena Martin

    Júlia, a young architecture student, leaves Barcelona for the first time to do an Erasmus term in Berlin.

  • The Gift

    The Gift

    Michelangelo Frammartino

    An apathetic old man and a possessed girl meet, without a word, in the depopulated Italian region of Calabria.

  • Double Room

    Double Room

    Ysé Sorel

    After a break-up, Lisa returns to her family farm to help her father. She slowly becomes haunted by visions after meeting Élise, the actress next door.

  • Aren't you happy

    Aren’t you happy

    Susanne Heinrich

    A girl wanders through yoga studios, art galleries and strangers’ beds in Berlin, looking for a place to sleep.

  • Four Nights with Anna

    Four Nights with Anna

    Jerzy Skolimovski

    The love affair of a slightly disturbed and voyeuristic loner.

  • Mixing

    Mixing

    Karine Silla Perez

    Filmed during Chanel’s 2022/23 fashion show in Dakar, Mixing explores how art and beauty can bring people together.

  • The Black Book

    The Black Book

    Valeria Sarmiento

    An Italian nanny and the enigmatic orphan in her charge adventure through 18th century Europe.

Festival 2023

The ArteKino festival takes place every year in December, showcasing a selection of 12 European films directed by young directors.

  • No One's with the Calves

    No One’s with the Calves

    Sabrina Sarabi

    Surrounded by fields and cows, Christin lives on the farm of her boyfriend Jan’s father.

  • Fishbone

    Fishbone

    Dragomir Sholev

    Points of view of an absurd world where the people are like the dolphin, no one knows how to take care of it.

  • Ladybitch

    Ladybitch

    Paula Knüpling + Marina Prados

    Young actress Ela lands the lead role in a new play by famous director Franz Kramer.

  • Vamos a la Playa

    Vamos a la Playa

    Bettina Blümner

    Young Germans go to Cuba looking for one’s missing brother. They’ll face tourist exploitation and inequality.

  • Sundays

    Sundays

    Alethea Avramis

    Sundays provides access into the mind and perspective of a priest through his daughter’s eyes.

  • Splendid Hotel

    Splendid Hotel

    Pedro Aguilera

    Arthur Rimbaud, who has long since given up poetry, is now a merchant in the Horn of Africa.

  • Sister, What Grows Where Land Is Sick?

    Sister, What Grows Where Land Is Sick?

    Franciska Seifert Eliassen

    In a small town in northern Norway, Eira starts reading the diary of her brilliant and rebellious sister.

  • Semret

    Semret

    Caterine Mona

    Semret, an Eritrean refugee living in Switzerland, needs to face her traumatic past for her and her daughter.

  • My Emptiness and I

    My Emptiness and I

    Adrian Silvestre

    Raphi is androgynous, she begins a gender transition as well as an arduous journey to find her true identity.

  • .Dog

    .Dog

    Yianna Americanou

    When his absent father is released from prison, young Dimitris has to fight between right and wrong.

  • All Our Fears

    All Our Fears

    Lukasz Ronduda + Lukasz Gutt

    Triggered by a tragedy, gay artist and activist Daniel, tries to make the local community grieve together.

  • The Sibyl

    The Sibyl

    Eduardo Brito

    The magnificent adaptation of the novel by Agustina Bessa-Luís, set in Portugal in the mid-20th century.

Young Jury 2023

Composed of 15 young Europeans aged between 18 and 25 from the partner schools of the ArteKino Festival, and, for the first time this year, 2 members of the European Film Academy, the jury selected « Sister, What Grows Where Land is Sick? » by Franciska Seifert Eliassen for the Young Audience Award 2023.

  • Adam Mytnik

    Poland, Lodz Film School

  • Angela de Jaegher

    Italy, Sapienza Università di Roma

  • Carles Verdaguer

    Spain, Escola de Cinema de Barcelona

  • Eleni Santoli

    Greece, The School of Film at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

  • Gustav Warn

    Sweden, Stockholm Film School

  • João Sousa

    Portugal, Universidade lusofona, Departamento de cinema e arte dos media, Lisbon

  • Luke O’Donoghue

    Irland, Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT), National Film School, Dublin

  • Margareth Villers

    Estonia, Baltic Film, Media & Arts School (BFMAS), Tallinn University

  • Raluca Nemeti

    Romania, European Film Academy Productions, European Film Club

  • Sakri Arkimies

    Finland, Aalto University (ELO), School of Arts, Design and Architecture, ELO Film School Helsinki, Department of Film, Television and Scenography

  • Sandra Caldentey

    France, TAI Escuela Universitaria de Artes, Madrid

  • Sebiana Prelaj

    Albania, American University in Bulgaria, Minor in film and theatre studies

  • Simona Jurkuvenaite

    Lithuania, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Vilnius

  • Svenja Leifheit

    Germany, Catalyst Institute for creative arts and technology, Berlin

  • Thomas Relinque

    Spain, European Film Academy Productions, European Film Club